SoToSpeak

SoToSpeak, a cycle of theatre essays, will continue in the 2025/2026 season with three new staged texts. The principle remains the same – the invited essayists stage, alone and with the help of a Mladinsko actor, their new essay, written for this particular occasion.

The new season of the SoToSpeak cycle will be opened by the writer and this year’s Kresnik award winner, Ana Schnabl. She will look into political schisms in the context of families, the attitude that children take towards parents with “wrong” political beliefs, and the shame these children feel about the beliefs of their parents. When staging the complex topic, which is on the one hand very personal, but on the other almost ancient, the essayist will be joined by a member of our ensemble, Boris Kos, and the essay will be staged in October 2025 as a coproduction between the Mladinsko Theatre and the Divja misel – Vodnik Homestead Institute.

The same coproduction will present, for the World Poetry Day in spring, poet Nina Dragičević, the recipient of the Župančič and Jenko Awards. She will collaborate with the actor Blaž Šef, this year’s recipient of the Župančič Award.

The final essays of this season of Sotospeak will be the work of Janez Janša, and the production is also planned for next spring. This will be the first time in a while that this multitalented artist and theorist will perform in front of the Slovenian audience, as he has lived and worked in Berlin for the last few years. His essay will be connected to the exhibition by the tandem Ulay/Marina Abramović Art vital, which will open at the end of November in Cukrarna. Cukrarna will be the co-producer of this essay together with the Mladinsko.